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Forum: Military Aviation

12th Aug 2020, 09:09

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Bigpants

One of the benefits of the Mil Aviation section...

One of the benefits of the Mil Aviation section of Prune is that it provides the public with a comprehensive 50 year history of MOD procurement cock ups which have wasted £ Billions for little...

Forum: Military Aviation

26th Jun 2018, 14:43

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Posted By Bigpants

Some excellent posts above thank you. I do have...

Some excellent posts above thank you. I do have a concern, most here seem to think in military terms about projects and accept they take years and along the way are bound to meet problems for a...

Forum: Military Aviation

18th Mar 2018, 17:27

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Posted By Bigpants

Dear WE branch fanatic, anyone with any knowledge...

Dear WE branch fanatic, anyone with any knowledge of political matters would know that this is a massive Albatross around the neck of politicians. Trying to defend the cost of this shameful fiasco...

Forum: Military Aviation

7th Feb 2018, 13:24

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Posted By Bigpants

Yes

Yes by no means a single service basher I would cut future defense spending because while I admire those who serve I have no patience with the Lords and Masters of MoD waste billions then demand more...

Forum: Military Aviation

6th Feb 2018, 13:53

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Posted By Bigpants

Will not do!

Sorry but your comment is just optimistic whistling in the wind. The Carrier and F35 debacle is part of a wider procurement catastrophe which has dogged HM Armed Forces for decades.

It has got to...

Forum: Military Aviation

19th Dec 2017, 08:05

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Posted By Bigpants

Well they have at least four years to fix the...

Well they have at least four years to fix the leak before HMS White Elephant becomes fully operational.

Forum: Military Aviation

7th Oct 2017, 11:16

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Bigpants

Will there be lady officers and other ranks on...

Will there be lady officers and other ranks on board? One hopes the chaps will behave.

Second officer removed for alleged improper relationship with female colleague on scandal-hit submarine
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Forum: Military Aviation

12th Jul 2017, 13:51

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Posted By Bigpants

UK's most expensive military assets 'increasingly...

UK's most expensive military assets 'increasingly vulnerable' to cheap missile attacks by Russia and China | The Independent...

Forum: Military Aviation

13th Apr 2017, 08:14

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Posted By Bigpants

KenV point taken about an overt act of war. Now...

KenV point taken about an overt act of war. Now assume that one of the carrier group hits a mine in "international waters" try proving that the Koreans or Iranians were responsible? If were the...

Forum: Military Aviation

12th Apr 2017, 15:48

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Posted By Bigpants

Interesting responses and food for thought. I...

Interesting responses and food for thought. I wonder if the Aircraft Carrier in time will become as vulnerable and irrelevant as the Fixed land based Fortress? Might seem like an odd analogy but...

Forum: Military Aviation

9th Apr 2017, 16:49

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Posted By Bigpants

US aircraft carrier George H W Bush enters...

US aircraft carrier George H W Bush enters Arabian Gulf | The National (http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/us-aircraft-carrier-george-h-w-bush-enters-arabian-gulf)

MSOCS if Iran puts a...

Forum: Military Aviation

7th Apr 2017, 06:20

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Posted By Bigpants

In the early hours of this morning apparently...

In the early hours of this morning apparently just two US destroyers launched over 50 Tomahawk Missiles which hit a Syrian Airfield.

Just explain to me why the UK needs two aircraft carriers? Had...

Forum: Military Aviation

31st Mar 2017, 14:21

Replies: 7,474

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Posted By Bigpants

George Bush sent to the Gulf by Donald Trump. Oh...

George Bush sent to the Gulf by Donald Trump. Oh Dear, rather undiplomatic.

First US Carrier Returns to Gulf Since Trump Inauguration...

Forum: Military Aviation

31st Mar 2017, 12:26

Replies: 7,474

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Posted By Bigpants

So if all this new technology gives the US a...

So if all this new technology gives the US a longer reach why has the US Fleet apparently sailed a Carrier through Straits Of Hormuz and into the Gulf?

Why not stay in safer waters and make use of...

Forum: Military Aviation

27th Mar 2017, 09:31

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Posted By Bigpants

The Ministry of Defense will “continue to explore...

The Ministry of Defense will “continue to explore a variety of options to augment the capabilities” of those warships instead.

OK here goes nothing, while it is best to keep a Carrier off shore in...

Forum: Military Aviation

15th Oct 2012, 15:11

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Posted By Bigpants

Time scales and politics

A week is a long time in politics...

By the time these ships are built HM the Queen may no longer be with us (hopefully not) Scotland could be independent and the bill dumped on Westminster for...

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